The Bureau of Land Management needs to change their name to the Bureau of Land Destruction

The capture and removal of 200 horses from the Blue Wing HMA (complex) was announced on Tuesday 7/30/13 and they will start capturing and removing the wild horses tomorrow 08/02/13 – giving the public no time to comment or file an IBLA complaint/stay. Drought conditions on our public land are not an emergency – they are caused by numerous factors and all of these factors are known in advance and obviously the BLM has again over-stepped its legal authority by not following the NEPA law or the 1971 Congressional Wild Horse and Burro law.

Per the Range Administration System (RAS), this Blue Wing HMA complex is almost entirely within the Blue Wing/7 Troughs grazing allotment which authorizes 20,114 active animal unit months (AUMs) and 11,912 suspended AUMs which include annual grazing of 7,064 sheep and 2,816 cattle – including authorization for 1,518 cattle to be out there right now!

So, if there is not enough forage for our wild horses and burros on their designated land that is legally set aside for them PRINCPALLY – then limited rain is NOT the problem. It is the livestock. The Bureau of Land Management needs to change their name to the Bureau of Land Destruction.

BLM Issues Gather Decision for Blue Wing Complex Wild Horse Gather

Winnemucca, Nev. – The Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca District, Humboldt River Field Office will begin an emergency gather on Aug. 2 to capture and remove 200 excess wild horses from the Blue Wing Complex area west of Lovelock, Nev. The emergency is needed because of declining conditions of the wild horses due to a lack of forage and declining numbers of available water sources due to severe drought.

The gather is expected to take about eight days and will be conducted by helicopter due to the terrain, the difficulty of access to water sources, and the overall skittishness of the wild horses. In this situation, a helicopter gather is the most effective method to ensure the overall health and safety of the animals.

According to Derek Messmer, acting field manager for the BLM Humboldt River Field Office, the wild horses within the Blue Wing Complex are moving farther away from their native ranges due to lack of forage and available water sources having been severely depleted.

“The current situation on the range is dismal and these wild horses, and the ecosystem they live in, need immediate relief,” said Messmer. “This emergency gather will help reduce the pressure on the water sources and range in the area, but it will not get us close to the AML.”

There are currently more than 1,574 wild horses within the proposed gather area based on flights conducted in June and on-the-ground monitoring. The wild horse appropriate management level (AML) for this area is 333 (low) to 553 (high) wild horses. The wild burro AML for this region is 55 (low) to 90 (high). The current population of burros is approximately 587; however, no burros will be captured or removed.

Removal of approximately 200 wild horses will lessen impacts to vegetation density, plant vigor, seed production, seedling establishment, and forage production relative to current conditions by reducing grazing pressures on drought-impacted rangeland resources. The gather also will help preserve the health and well-being of those animals removed from the range as well as those that will remain within the complex.

The gathered wild horses will be transported to the Palomino Valley Wild Horse and Burro Center near Reno, Nev. where they will be prepared for the BLM adoption program.

“Wild horses removed from the Blue Wing Complex will be available for adoption through the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Adoption Program,” said BLM Winnemucca District Manager Gene Seidlitz. “Those that are not adopted will be cared for in long-term pastures, where they retain their wild status and protection under the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act.”

What, you may ask, could “Sex, Drugs, Mustangs, Corruption and BP” have in common? That’s not only a fair question, it has an astounding and disgusting answer that exposes one of the most bizarre, unethical, horridly sad and disturbing conspiracies we’ve come across yet

Please note, we said Conspiracy, not Conspiracy Theory. That’s very important.
In this two part Special Report, ATS News’ Mark Allin interviews George Knapp in Las Vegas, Nevada about a very dark and very real travesty that is being played out by a cast of bad actors from the U.S. Government (U.S. Department of the Interior and its subsidiary agencies; The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and The Minerals Management Services (MMS)), “Big Agriculture”, and “Big Oil”. It all starts up in the Northern Deserts of Nevada where the U.S. Federal Government, in a Unanimous Vote of the U.S. Congress, set aside millions of acres of public lands for the indigenous wild horses, or Mustangs as they are properly called, back in 1971.

The idea was to make sure this piece of “Americana” was protected from human encroachment and allowed to live free on the lands their ancestors roamed millions of years ago.� Congress charged the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management with the stewardship of both the land and the Mustangs. What we reveal in this interview shows not only that the Bureau failed horribly in that stewardship, but did so by colluding with big industry to destroy the very beings they were entrusted with protecting. The scandals are numerous and tawdry, the lies are plentiful and ludicrous, the attitudes are sadly predictable and the result is the wholesale destruction of the American people’s culture and waste of the American people’s treasure(read tax dollars) by their own servants.

Part one covers the history of the BLM’s lies and provides the factual counterpoint to those lies from a former BLM employee, Craig Downer, who quit in disgust and has proven the BLM’s data is false. Part one also covers the investigations into the bogus data used to support these lies, via FOIA work done by a private citizen, Cindy MacDonald, that shows what the true motivations are behind these heinous acts. We’ll also get a glimpse into George’s 20 plus year investigation of this activity , the truth about the horses, their land and how it’s been handed over to Big Agriculture (Corporate Cattle Ranches) and Big Oil,� all at the expense of the U.S. Tax Payer and in violation of U.S. Federal Law.

In Part two of our hard hitting ATSNews Special Report: “SEX, DRUGS, MUSTANGS, CORRUPTION and BP TOO”, ATSnews’ Mark Allin (AKA: Springer) and 17 time Emmy Award Winner, KLAS 8 News Now (Las Vegas, NV) Investigative Reporter, George Knapp discuss the unbelievable corruption, sex and drug parties and payola schemes that transpired between the MMS and several Big Oil Companies. The Inspector General of the U.S. investigated the “Culture of Substance Abuse and Corruption” that ran rampant through the Denver Office of the MMS and several big oil companies from 2002 through 2006. The U.S. Taxpayer was bilked out of hundreds of millions of dollars, the environment was utterly neglected, the affected areas populations were at great risk (and still are), all for the betterment of a handful of Big Oil Companies’ bottom lines.

You may be surprised to learn that revenues generated by Royalties paid to the U.S. Government, in return for exploiting the oil reserves under public lands, is the second only to TAXES in total gross income for the U.S. Government. That’s a double edged statement. On the one hand, it becomes obvious why government is so happy to allow things like “self regulation” to companies like BP, in spite of their abysmal record. On the other hand, it begs the questions “Why do these appointed (NOT elected) officials sell these royalties for only pennies on the dollar compared to their fair market value? Why do they totally disregard the laws of the land and allow these companies to do whatever they want to increase profits and control costs by avoiding, or totally ignoring, health, environment and safety regulations?”

Why?

Because our public servants are, literally, IN BED with these companies.
Finally, part two also discusses the alleged, “real reason” for the very recent Mustang round ups off the horse’s legal land. The 675 mile long Ruby Natural Gas Pipeline that runs right through the Calico Herd’s protected lands. After hearing about this pipeline, ATSNews’ Mark Allin started doing some good old fashioned investigative reporting of his own to see just who was behind this pipeline, who would benefit from it most. What he discovered is disturbing but not surprising. The same Corporate Raiders who have been fined hundreds of millions of dollars, created environmental disasters all over the U.S. (and many other parts of the world) because they just turn their nose up at safety regulations, best practices, and common sense are ALL involved with the Ruby Pipeline.

The same bunch of villains who have plundered our public lands for decades, destroyed lives through their negligence and horrid lack of concern for anything but huge profits are now destroying yet another piece of Americana, the Wild Mustangs of the Great Southwest. Watch part two and find out who these corporate thugs are and hear Mark’s plea to the ATS Community to help us expose the rest of this story!

Maverick Medicine Water Trap Gather:
Will begin on or about Thursday, Aug 1, to gather and remove excess wild horses from lands adjacent to the Cherry Spring conveyance in the Elko District Maverick Medicine Herd Management Area.